Chag HaBanot 3747 / חַג הַבָּנוֹת 7508

North African Chanukah festival of daughters ✡️

Chag HaBanot for Hebrew Year 7508 begins at sundown on and ends at nightfall on .

Rosh Chodesh l’banot (ראש חודש לבנות‎ also known as Chag habanot חג הבנות‎ [Girls’ Day]), and in Arabic as Eid al-Banat, is a holiday, celebrated by some of the Jewish communities in the Middle East on Rosh Chodesh of the Jewish month of Tevet, during the Jewish holiday of Chanukah. The Jewish community where the holiday was most preserved is in Tunisia. But there is also evidence that it was also celebrated in Jewish communities in Libya, Algeria, Kushta, Morocco and Thessaloniki.

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Dates for Chag HaBanot

HolidayStartsEndsHebrew Date
Chag HaBanot 3744 1 Tevet 7505
Chag HaBanot 3746 30 Kislev 7506
Chag HaBanot 3746 30 Kislev 7507
Chag HaBanot 3747 30 Kislev 7508
Chag HaBanot 3749 1 Tevet 7509
Chag HaBanot 3749 30 Kislev 7510
Chag HaBanot 3750 30 Kislev 7511

References

The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary (paid link)
Rabbi Michael Strassfeld
“Girls Day (Judaism)” in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
Books (paid links)
The Jewish Holidays: A Guide & Commentary

The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld

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